Secondary forces in protein folding

RW Newberry, RT Raines - ACS chemical biology, 2019 - ACS Publications
A complete inventory of the forces governing protein folding is critical for productive protein
modeling, including structure prediction and de novo design, as well as understanding …

Collagen structure: new tricks from a very old dog

J Bella - Biochemical Journal, 2016 - portlandpress.com
The main features of the triple helical structure of collagen were deduced in the mid-1950s
from fibre X-ray diffraction of tendons. Yet, the resulting models only could offer an average …

Red-, blue-, or no-shift in hydrogen bonds: a unified explanation

J Joseph, ED Jemmis - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2007 - ACS Publications
We provide a simple explanation for X− H bond contraction and the associated blue shift
and decrease of intensity in IR spectrum of the so-called improper hydrogen bonds. This …

Electronic basis of improper hydrogen bonding: a subtle balance of hyperconjugation and rehybridization

IV Alabugin, M Manoharan, S Peabody… - Journal of the …, 2003 - ACS Publications
The X− H bond length in X− H.. Y hydrogen bonded complexes is controlled by a balance of
two main factors acting in opposite directions.“XH bond lengthening” due to n (Y)→ σ*(H− X) …

[BOOK][B] Introduction to nanoscience and nanotechnology

GL Hornyak, HF Tibbals, J Dutta, JJ Moore - 2008 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The maturation of nanotechnology has revealed it to be a unique and distinct discipline
rather than a specialization within a larger field. Its textbook cannot afford to be a chemistry …

On the physical origin of blue-shifted hydrogen bonds

X Li, L Liu, HB Schlegel - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2002 - ACS Publications
For blue-shifted hydrogen-bonded systems, the hydrogen stretching frequency increases
rather than decreases on complexation. In computations at various levels of theory, the blue …

Chemical mechanisms of histone lysine and arginine modifications

BC Smith, JM Denu - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Regulatory …, 2009 - Elsevier
Histone lysine and arginine residues are subject to a wide array of post-translational
modifications including methylation, citrullination, acetylation, ubiquitination, and …

The Cα—H⋅⋅⋅ O hydrogen bond: A determinant of stability and specificity in transmembrane helix interactions

A Senes, I Ubarretxena-Belandia… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
The Cα—H⋅⋅⋅ O hydrogen bond has been given little attention as a determinant of
transmembrane helix association. Stimulated by recent calculations suggesting that such …

[BOOK][B] Introduction to proteins: structure, function, and motion

A Kessel, N Ben-Tal - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Introduction to Proteins provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art introduction to the
structure, function, and motion of proteins for students, faculty, and researchers at all levels …

Significance of hydrogen bonding and other noncovalent interactions in determining octahedral tilting in the CH3NH3PbI3 hybrid organic-inorganic halide …

PR Varadwaj, A Varadwaj, HM Marques… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The CH3NH3PbI3 (methylammonium lead triiodide) perovskite semiconductor
system has been viewed as a blockbuster research material during the last five years …